Today was quite an unspectacular day. Our main task was to deliver Skins to Greymouth in time for his 4-hour bus ride back to Christchurch. Being the organised people we are, we managed this without too much difficulty and, having said our (tearful) goodbyes we headed back on ourselves to Hokitika, the best place in New Zealand to buy jade (or pounamu in Maori ), which is a culturally invaluable raw material, and big business.
Initially, I had been the one who wanted to visit Hokitika as I had planned to design and have carved a piece of jade jewellery as a memento of my time in Enzed; turns out that I don’t actually like jade that much, and would rather stick to my favourite, turquoise. Still, we wandered around the many jade shops and factories in, the otherwise dead, Hokitika. We then did some food shopping. Doesn’t this blog just get more exciting as I write??
Having booked into our $15 (cheapest so far) campsite, we sat with a lovely dinner of vegetable Thai red curry and luxuriated in our now Skins-less and roomy campervan. A brief fling with the idea of going to the cinema followed, but it was soon quashed by the fact that we were quickly running out of money. Instead a night in, campervan style, watching Blood Diamond, blog writing, and planning the next few legs of our trip ensued.
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